WHAT IF? WEDNESDAY at REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Welcome to What If? Wednesday at The House That Stamps Built!!! 
Are you ready for some great inspiration for this fabulous sketch from a fabulous DT? 

You know you're going to have some fun with this sketch.  I can't wait to see what you create. 
Here's my card - I flipped it a bit and would love to know what you think of it.

The images for my card is RI stamps "Summer Clothesline" #9017-W and "Grass Border" #1507-J and the sentiment is "Flutter By" #9005-E.  After sponging the bg with Memento inks "Summer Sky", "Bahama Blue", "Bamboo Leaves" and "Pear Tart" I stamped the clothes line image and colored it with Copic Markers.  The grass border was stamped twice in Memento "Cottage Ivy" and again with "Bamboo Leaves".  The sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and sponged with Memento "Dandelion".  I used Stickles on the tiny flower and the MS punched butterfly.

All my Rock Stars teamies are here with some great inspiration hoping you'll play along with What If? Wednesday Sketch Challenge at The House That Stamps Built!

Makiko - Karen - Lynette - Joy - Dawn - Patti - Kecia

One final note - if you're reading this locally and are within driving distance to "Your Maine Stamper" in Winthrop, Maine - stop by on Saturday, July 14, from 1-3 p.m. and say hello.  I'll be there doing a FREE make and take debuting Repeat Impression "Beautiful Days" stamps for their customers. 

Stamp Happy!!!



STAMP OF THE WEEK AT REPEAT IMPRESSIONS

Happy Monday, blog friends.....it's time for another stamp of the week offer at The House That Stamps Built.  For one week this stamp will be offered to our followers at 50% off the retail price.  You can find it here.

Dragonfly Deco #4405-K.

Here's my card using this fabulous stamp

I love dragonflies.  They eat other nasty bugs and I love it when I see these guys flying about in our backyard....it means we can sit out on our deck without the worry of annoying bugs around.  They really scoop them up. 

Please visit my teamies to see more inspiration using this fantastic stamp. 

Patti - Makiko - Karen

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all have a fabulous week.

Christmas In July at Outlawz

Hi blog friends! 

What a fantastic 2 weeks it's been at Outlawz and our "Where in the World" celebration!  I really hope you had an opportunity to join in on some of the fabulous games and challenges.  Good luck on being a winner if you did!!!  Winners will be announced Wednesday, July 11 at the Outlawz.  It was such fun to see all the CAS challenge creations, and I'm glad it's a random drawing, because who could choose from all of the fabulous entries? 

Today my post is for week two in Outlawz July CAS challenge- "Christmas in July".  I know many other challenge sites have the same theme going on, however the Outlawz CAS DT is adding a tiny addition....your card must be inspired by a Christmas or holiday song. Here are the specifics...While the weather outside is not so frightful, we challenge you to put on your favorite holiday carol/song, or wintery song, and use it as inspiration for your CAS project this week. Please include what song inspired you :) Remember, this song can be used to inspire you in ANY way...even it is not a Christmas/Winter Holiday card.

My card was inspired by the song, "I'll Be Home For Christmas".  I get so emotional whenever I hear it.  Aside from Christmas carols, this is the Christmas song my mother loves most.  (Being that she's of the "Greatest Generation" and this was a WWII song what it means to her goes without saying). 

I paper pieced the heart balloon from "Big Boys Toys" by RI with scrap pieces from Authentique "Glory" dp.  The sentiment is also from RI -  #3703 and today, last day, it's available for 50% off for RI blog members.  Every Monday there's a stamp offered to blog members for 50% off.  The bg is PTI "Spring Rain" CS die cut (negatives) with Memory Box cloud dies.  The base CS is GKD Pure Luxury White and Black Onyx.  The "ribbon" is a piece of Trendy Tape that I adhered to CS and cut.  The USA also came from a scrap piece of Authentique "Glory" paper.

Can't wait to see what Christmas/Holiday song inspires your CAS card.  Good luck and have fun!  See you at Outlawz!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Special Family Weekend

Hi blog friends,
Today I'm not posting a card for you to see, but rather some photos I thought you might like to see of a trip my hubby and I went on last weekend in Aroostook County, or more familiarly known in Maine as "The County".  If you've ever eaten a Maine potato, chances are it was grown in "The County".  It's a big agricultural area and is located in the northern most part of the state.  As is so many areas in Maine, it's a beautiful area and the people embrace their farming life and they make a visitor feel right at home.  

First a little background - when my husband retired a year ago, he began an interest in genealogy.  Quite by accident, he found he had family in The County and a contact with them was made.  We were invited to come to "Mapleton Daze", a summer celebration of a town and their agricultural roots by our new found "cousins" and we couldn't wait to go.  It's a 5 hour trip by car from where we live in Maine to The County, but the entire trip is gorgeous. 

We also met up with my husband's uncle who brings his horses to a farm event every year in Mapleton.  It was good to see him again - he treats his horses as if they were puppies and they adore him.

So, here are some photos I wanted to share with you of the area. 

This photo is my husband's uncle Elmin Mitchell and his prized Belgians. 

They're huge! This was at Mapleton Farms where antique farm implements are demonstrated by very skilled men, women and work horses.

This is Elmin again after his horses were hitched to an antique potato digger.  He is 85 years old (not sure if he'd want me telling you that, though).  He was demonstrating the digger and how, a century ago, the farmers dug their potatoes with it and horses.

This is a panoramic view of some potato fields and a farm house.  The vista goes on forever in The County

A second crop being raised in The County is canola.  The yellow flowers are blooming canola and there are thousands of planted acres of both potatoes and canola, as far as the eye can see.

I hope you enjoyed the photos.  Have a great day!  I'll be back this weekend with a fun challenge from the CAS DT at Outlawz.  I hope you've all had a chance to join in on some of those great challenges....the celebration ends Saturday, July 7. 



Designer's Choice Challenge at Repeat Impressions

One Nation Under God

HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA

Happy 4th of July everyone!!!!
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It's time for another designer's choice challenge at Repeat Impressions, aka, The House That Stamps Built - this time it's Lynette's turn and she has challenged us to a color challenge - using greens and purples.  (I bet you thought it would be red, white and blue, LOL!) 
I hope you'll have a chance to play along with us.  Simply go over to The House That Stamps Built and link your card photo.  You might be the lucky winner of some fabulous new Repeat Impression Stamps if you do. 

Here is my card for Lynette's challenge.

Once again, I used this beautiful hydranga stamp from the Beautiful Days collection and colored it with Copic markers.  The wainscot bg was created using Gina K's tutorial.  A very easy way to create a nice bg.  The flourish "frame" is a die from Sizzix called "Corner Flourishes".  Spellbinder oval was used to cut the shape of the stamp.  I stamped the bumblebee twice and popped the second image on with dimensionals.  My sentiment #8607 was stamped on lavender cs with Memento "grape jelly" ink and die cut with a scalloped oval die. 

Please visit these other Rock Stars for more inspiration using Lynette's great color challenge.

Lynette - Makiko - Joy - Karen - Dawn - Patti - Kecia 

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all your sweet comments. 
A big hug and shout out to my dear blog friends in the states where there is horrid heat and no power, as well as those enduring the aftermath of the wild fires in the west.